How to Use subculture in a Sentence

subculture

noun
  • There’s this whole subculture of teenagers all the way through ages 29 and 30, my wife being one of them.
    Jessi Virtusio, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The play, under the clear direction of Lisa James, captures both the era and the subculture.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Messinger went on to share a thread of some of her favorite Date Me docs, a celebration of the subculture.
    WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Li grew up in a unique subculture where crime spoke many languages and crossed borders with ease.
    Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 11 Oct. 2022
  • These are nights of nostalgia, but for many, the punk subculture is a lifestyle.
    Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Its players and fans say Dream SMP has given rise to a new subculture for girls in gaming.
    Kat Tenbarge, NBC News, 26 June 2022
  • Scene was a subculture that started in the early aughts and became popular through the mid- and late-2000s.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 22 July 2022
  • In the close subculture of strongmen and strongwomen, her suicide came as a shock, even among those who knew her well.
    John Leland, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For Bay Area natives of a certain age, the film’s settings, subcultures and music will ring true.
    Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The rap squat came from prison subculture and was first called the prison pose, supposedly a crouch meant to look menacing.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • One of the online subcultures that influenced the birth of e/acc are the Rationalists.
    Robert Evans, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The newspaper of record seems to be marketing to the dominant subculture of years gone by.
    David Guberman, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Hip-hop, by then a dynamic subculture, was walloped but would not be set back.
    Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • For me, 80s D&D was a subculture and nerd culture was a sub-sub culture well unlike today.
    Adrienne Gibbs, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Her career has since been marked by books that celebrate cities and their subcultures.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • As he became immersed in the subculture surrounding the sport, Jaramillo felt out of place.
    The New Yorker, 13 May 2022
  • Perhaps not to the extent of fans within Japan’s romance video game subculture, though.
    Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • This documentary short is an ode to the kind of style that binds a subculture together.
    The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Punk rock has historically had its own fashion sense, with a DIY mantra that drove the spirit of the subculture.
    Charlie Vargas, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Each part of the large metropolis holds the key to unlocking a world full of subculture and history.
    Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2023
  • That one of the most mainstream celebrities should align themselves with the aesthetics of a nihilistic subculture is a bit fun.
    Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 7 Nov. 2023
  • That his redemption isn’t used as a club to preach at his fans has further deepened a rabid subculture.
    Holly Gleason, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • Far from getting bogged down in an opaque subculture, the movie isn’t really about being Asian in Toronto.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Our mission is to discover the latent talent of the subculture.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 July 2022
  • But this show already has the Seanchan to set up, and the Aiel to set up (more on that in a minute), and probably a few other societies and subcultures besides.
    Andrew Cunningham & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2023
  • MTV Raps, along with a swelling pride that the downtown subculture of yore is now an epicenter of contemporary art.
    Faran Krentcil, ELLE, 17 Sep. 2022
  • From the beginning, however, the do-gooder group in Oxford was tied to a similar subculture in the Bay Area.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Green space for young people to engage in subculture and escape all other powers — that saves lives.
    Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Strong winds and the right swells can bring waves of up to 10 feet to its shores, and those conditions have created an unexpected subculture of Great Lakes surfers.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There’s no doubt that a racist subculture exists in America and is spread on social media.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 May 2022

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